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Delta's A330neo fuel stats... and more.
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July 16, 2019 - by Jon Ostrower for theaircurrent.com
Delta Air Lines opened its doors Monday morning at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to show off its new A330-900neo.
The aircraft entered service officially with the airline last week on the 4,972nm Pacific hop between Seattle and Shanghai. For Airbus's twin-aisle Neo, the introduction at Delta is a crucial trial for the updated Rolls-Royce Trent 7000-powered aircraft as it begins life with a blue chip U.S. airline.
For Delta, the 281-seat A330-900 replaces an aging 211-seat (3 seats are blocked for crew) 767-300ER.
Delta shared some key figures from its route planning system with...
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New A220 aircraft being completed at Airbus factory in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada Source: Airbus
Air France is Working on an Aircraft Order at the End of July - Airbus A220 & A320neo
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July 16, 2019 - By Fabrice Gliszczynski for latribune.fr
Management plans to announce an order for aircraft at the end of July, when presenting half-yearly results.
The A220 (formerly Bombardier's C-Series) has caught the eye of the management who should select it (with the A320 NEO according to some sources) for the renewal of the short and medium-haul fleet. Air France is also looking to take the A380 out of its fleet.
The A220 has a lot of strengths
To replace its A320s, Air France (which extended the warranty of the current perimeter of 110 aircraft until 2030) hung on used aircraft and new aircraft with the study of the A320 NEO and A220 -300 (formerly Bombardier's C-Series, renamed A220 in July 2018 after Airbus took control of the program).
The A220 has many advantages. It has the advantage of being less expensive to purchase, offering costs at headquarters similar to a larger aircraft type A321 (while intricately smaller aircraft have higher headquarters costs), and to offer passengers a very comfortable cabin.
Its fuel consumption is...
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GE9X Engine Recognized With Thrust Record - Engine of the Boeing 777X
The GE9X engine for the Boeing 777X set a new Guinness World Records
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July 16, 2019 - by Eric Brothers for aerospacemanufacturinganddesign.com
The GE9X engine for the Boeing 777X set a new Guinness World Records title for thrust to become the most powerful commercial aircraft jet engine (test performance) after reaching 134,300 lb. This achievement breaks the record held by GE's GE90-11B engine of 127,900 lb set in 2002.
The new record occurred during an engineering test on Nov. 10, 2017 at GE's outdoor test facility in Peebles, Ohio. Guinness World Records acknowledged the feat at a ceremony at GE Aviation's Ohio headquarters as part of the company's 100-year celebration.
"The GE9X engine incorporates the most...
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MH370 investigators discover 'mystery load weighing 200lb' was added to the cargo flight list AFTER take-off
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July 16, 2019 - by DIANNE APEN-SADLER for dailymail.co.uk
- Ghyslain Wattrelos lost his wife and two teen children on Malaysia Airlines flight
- He claims new report by French investigators uncovered 'mysterious 89kg load'
- One theory behind MH370's disappearance is that a stowaway hijacked plane
- Airline have not released full cargo manifest of doomed flight on March 8, 2014
- Last year, victims' families called on government to release more cargo details
French investigators looking into MH370's disappearance in 2014 have discovered a 'mysterious load of 200lb' added to the flight list after take-off, it has been claimed.
Ghyslain Wattrelos, who lost his wife and two teenage children on the MalaysiaAirlines flight, said the cargo was revealed in a new report on the passengers and baggage.
He told Le Parisien: 'It was also learned that a mysterious load of 89kg had been added to the flight list after take-off.
'A container was also overloaded, without anyone knowing why. The expert draws no conclusion.
'It may be incompetence or manipulation. Everything is possible. This will be part of the questions for Malaysians.'
The mystery load could add further evidence to the theory that a stowaway hijacked the plane...
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Toronto man whose family died in Boeing 737 MAX crash: Scrap the jet
Boeing should scrap the plane and top executives should resign and face criminal charges
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July 16, 2019 - by David Koenig, The Associated Press for ctvnews.ca
A man who lost his wife, mother-in-law and three young children in the crash of a 737 Max in Ethiopia says Boeing should scrap the plane and top executives should resign and face criminal charges.
Paul Njoroge, who is due to testify before Congress in the U.S. on Wednesday, said in an interview that 737 Max planes should have been grounded after a deadly crash off the coast of Indonesia in October. Instead, they kept flying until another crashed five months later near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, shortly after takeoff, claiming the lives of his family and 152 others.
If Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration had done their jobs properly, Njoroge said, "these planes would have been grounded in November and today I would be enjoying summer with my family, I would be playing football with my son."
Njoroge (ja-ROW-ga) will be the first relative of any of the 346 passengers who died in the two crashes to testify before Congress. He will...
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Boeing 737 MAX Grounding Could Stretch Into 2020
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July 15, 2019 - By Andy Pasztor, Alison Sider and Andrew Tangel for wsj.com
- Company executives, FAA engineers and regulators have expanded their safety analyses to cover a growing list of issues
Boeing Co. BA -1.02% 's 737 MAX planes are unlikely to be ready to carry passengers again until 2020 because of the time it will take to fix flight-control software and complete other steps, an increasing number of government and industry officials say, even as the company strives to get its jet back into service this year.
Boeing executives, FAA engineers and international aviation regulators have steadily expanded their safety analyses to cover a growing list of issues spanning everything from emergency recovery procedures to potentially suspect electronic components. Some of those assessments are further complicated because they also cover earlier 737 models...
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The Retired F-117A Nighthawk Is Doing...Something...in the Desert - A New Sensor Being Tested?
Retired in 2008, the F-117A Nighthawk is doing who-knows-what in the California and Nevada deserts.
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July 15, 2019 - By Kyle Mizokami for popularmechanics.com
The F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter, the world's first purpose-designed stealth aircraft, was recently sighted high in the skies over Death Valley, California.
The fighter, part of a fleet of jets retired in 2008, was sporting a brand new camouflage paint job and accompanied by a NASA jet and aerial refueling tanker. What was it doing? That's anyone's guess.
The F-117A was spotted on by plane spotter Steve Lewis on July 11.
The fighter was refueling from a KC-135R Stratotanker and was accompanied by a NASA F-15D fighter. Intriguingly, the F-15D was "carrying an unidentified podded sensor under its starboard wing."
The plane completed refueling and then headed east to Nevada...
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Do you believe that this airplane is flying again? - read...
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July 15, 2019 - by Miquel Ros for cnn.com
In Greek mythology, the phoenix was a bird that, after death, rose from its own ashes, ready to fly again. Elleston Trevor referenced this in his 1964 novel, which was later brought to the film, "The Flight of the Phoenix".
It's the story of an air crew that, after crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, manages to repair their aircraft and fly to safety.
The "Flight of the Phoenix" may have been fiction, but in the real world, aircraft have, on rare occasions, managed to make unlikely, almost miraculous, comebacks.
The extreme climatic conditions of some of the world's most inhospitable places may have actually helped preserve the airframes in such a way that they could be salvaged and made airworthy again, sometimes even decades after they crash-landed.
These are the real phoenixes of modern aviation, reborn not from smoldering ashes but from frigid ice.
Juliet Delta 321
The rough and versatile C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft (or to be more exact, its ski-fitted version, the Lockheed LC-130) is used by the US Antarctic Program to ferry supplies to its string of bases across Antarctica, an unforgiving continent permanently buried by a sheet of ice averaging at least one mile thick.
On December 4, 1971 one such airplane, call sign Juliet Delta 321, left on what was to be an unexpectedly long sortie.On that fateful day, after resupplying a scientific expedition...
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American Airlines cancels 737 MAX flights until at least Nov. 2
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July 15, 2019 - by Kyle Arnold, Aviation for dallasnews.com
American Airlines is taking the troubled Boeing 737 Max jets off its schedules for another two months until at least Nov. 2.
The move will force American Airlines to cancel about 115 flights each day. American has 24 Boeing 737 Max jets in its fleet, the second most of any U.S. carrier behind only Dallas-based Southwest Airlines with 34.
American said it is hopeful the plane will be re-certified to fly by the end of the year, but it is canceling flights through Nov. 2 to give more predictability to the coming fall travel season...
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